# Robin Hood on BBC America- anyone else's guilty pleasure? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569 "2007-08-06T03:20:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/21 "2007-08-08T18:07:04Z")
[QUOTE=Mk VII] You should have seen the old Richard Green series from the 1950s _“Rahbin Hood, Rahbin Hood, riding through the glen…”_ [/QUOTE] [This one?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vFL-lcxkYk) [Though I prefer this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oozGotV-Xcs) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/22 "2007-08-08T22:43:40Z")
I watched the first two episodes yesterday. They were terrible. I’ll try the eighties version next. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/23 "2007-08-09T15:42:19Z")
[QUOTE=Mk VII] You should have seen the old Richard Green series from the 1950s _“Rahbin Hood, Rahbin Hood, riding through the glen…”_ [/QUOTE] **Trivia!** Richard Green is MY real life name. It’s also one of the 50 most common names in the western world. I do sometimes get jokeingly asked if either I, or a relative of mine, was the one who played Robin Hood. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/24 "2007-08-09T15:53:34Z")
You should point out to them that the TV actor spelled his name “Greene” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/25 "2007-08-21T15:07:10Z")
After reading this thread, I rented the first two disks over the weekend. It’s not bad. It made us laugh in a few spots, and it’s something we can watch with the kids. My 11-yr-old really likes it, although he did not understand what was so funny about: “I shot the sherriff!” “No, you shot the deputy.” Nottigham castle looks suspiciously like Shrewsbury Abbey. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/26 "2007-08-21T15:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] After reading this thread, I rented the first two disks over the weekend. It’s not bad. It made us laugh in a few spots, and it’s something we can watch with the kids. My 11-yr-old really likes it, although he did not understand what was so funny about: “I shot the sherriff!” “No, you shot the deputy.” Nottigham castle looks suspiciously like Shrewsbury Abbey. [/QUOTE] It’s not though. I believe it was all filmed on location in some cheap Eastern European country. ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/27 "2007-08-21T16:40:31Z")
[QUOTE=tagos] It’s not though. I believe it was all filmed on location in some cheap Eastern European country. [/QUOTE] Hungary, I think. The local organised crime outfit [stole the masters](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5292348.stm) and held them to ransom too. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/28 "2007-08-21T16:41:03Z")
Wow, a lot of hate for “Robin of Sherwood” here. ``` Sorry folks, loved ROS, think the new on blows (still watch it for cheap laughs). Considering what a useless pretty boy the new Robin is, and what a clueless cock tease Marion is, I often find myself rooting for the sheriff, at least in the early episodes he seemed vaguely competent. You have to love a Robin Hood series where the worst thing you could do in Sherwood is trust Robin. :) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/29 "2007-08-21T16:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sweetums] Wow, a lot of hate for “Robin of Sherwood” here. ``` Sorry folks, loved ROS, ``` [/QUOTE] Have you watched RoS recently, though? ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/30 "2007-08-21T16:56:17Z")
[QUOTE=Szlater] Have you watched RoS recently, though? [/QUOTE] ``` Okay I will admit I haven't, but ye-ghods, it couldn't possibly be as MST3K bad as this one. ``` 😕 Could it? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569/31 "2007-08-21T17:00:13Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **Robin of Sherwood** was the better series. [/QUOTE] Holy flashback, Batman! I remember this series from when I was a teenager. I think they showed it for a while on HBO. I thought the guy who played Robin Hood was the cutest guy I had ever seen in my young life. Quality of acting, schmality of acting . . . that guy was hot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-on-bbc-america-anyone-elses-guilty-pleasure/414569.md?page=1)